My road to economic recovery continues through the National Fairness Campaign Steering Committee Capacity Building Symposium

I believe that on our road to economic recovery that support for the

National Capacity Building Symposium
which I believe is vital. Through a Retrospective & Best Practices Identification Symposium will lead to an American Recovery through a Reinvestment Fairness Campaign

Convener of the National Fairness Campaign Steering Committee

Dr. Robert Day

President of the Center for Urban & Rural Development

Where: PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT HISTORIC SITE

2038 Auburn Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45219

Saturday January 31, Cincinnati, Ohio 8:00 AM - 4:00PM

National Fairness Campaign Steering Committee

• General Chairman Joesph Debro Co-Founder, National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC)
• Co-Chairwoman Pandora Ramsay, Founding President , Ohio Fairness Campaign
• Co-Chairman Fredrick Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA. former Chairman of Cincinnati Change
• Co-Chairman Irvin Henderson, Former Chairman, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC).
• Convener Dr. Robert Day PhD, President, Center for Urban & Rural Development
• Executive Coordinator, Michael Cole, President, Thouh Communications

Ohio is a focal point because it is middle America, and has demonstrated past and current innovations to address fairness and capacity building, including state government minority business development programs, initiatives to increase the budget for the African American males commission, and the recent appointment of a non government "infrastructure czar" to oversee Ohio's portion of the proposed American reinvestment & recovery program.

Steering Committee Advisor and Panel Moderator
Lawrence Auls, Chairman of MDi, Executive Director LISW, LTD

MORNING SESSION
8:00AM-11:00 AM

50 YEAR REVIEW & ANALYSIS

Office of Equal Opportunity [OEO], Affirmative Action, Setasides, Affirmative Access, Diversity, Inclusion, New Markets Tax Credits, Business Development Programs, Empowerment Zones, Model Cities, CDBG, DOL Workforce Development Grants, Community Action Agencies, Structures, Approaches, and delivery systems for Opportunity[s] and Capacity Building. The Fairness Campaign will review past political agreements and governing compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment under an Obama Presidency. The Fairness Campaign will also identify and address historic moral gaps.

WHAT WORKED? WHY NOT?
Among the issues to be reviewed -

• War On Poverty: Community Action Agencies, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (Model Cities), Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Black Capitalism, Philadelphia Plan, Selected Contractors Strategy
• Executive Order 8802 Fair Employment Practices and follow-on actions
• Public Law 95-507 and modifications
• Ohio House Bill 584 Set Aside and its descendants such as EDGE
• The Small Business Investment Act and Minority capitalization programs such as Specialized SBIC’s [MSBIC’S]
• Construction Apprenticeship Programs
• Small Business Administration (SBA) and other business economic and technical assistance programs
• CETA, New Careers, Jobs Corps, Military Service, Peace Corps, Vista
• Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones
• Minority, National and Regional Purchasing Councils
• Positive capacity building pass-throughs, joint ventures, and mentor protégés
• Non capacity building pass-throughs, fronts, and joint ventures

A WORKING LUNCH
11:00AM-12:30 PM

AFTERNOON SESSION
12:45PM – 4:00PM

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

BEST PRACTICES FOR FAIRNESS: JOBS AND CAPACITY BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE – LEED [GREEN/ENERGY] – REDEVELOPMENT

• Access to Capital & Credit: Dr. Robert Day, Dr. Herb Smith and the Institute for Open Economic Networks
• Commercial, Retail and Residential Development: Irvin Henderson, President The Henderson CompanyConstruction and LEED Buildings: Fred Hargrove, PE. MBA, President, Hargrove Engineering, LLC with invited - Small, Medium and Large Contractors
• Next Generation Workforce Development and the American Labor Market: Bill McCoy, President, The McCoy Company; George B. Edwards, Founder & President, Black Trades Council of Ohio Invited – construction craftspeople including union members, apprentice and journeymen, along with workforce policy makers.
• Health Policy Options and Telemedicine: Mark Batson, Executive Director, PolicyBridge [think-tank]; Carl White, President The Net Video
• Broadband America and SMART Buildings: Hershel Daniels, Junior, Co-Founder MDi and invited Technologists

4:00PM NEXT STEPS

ADJOURNMENT

I solemnly pledge to the best of my ability

As a State of Ohio not for profit organization, Cincinnati Change, I am proposing , as a lifetime trustee, that solemnly pledge that we, as individuals and directors of Cincinnati Change, will faithfully execute the office of citizen of the United States, and that we will, to the best of our ability, help create a truly democratic world by:

(1) pledging allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all;

(2) going beyond mainstream corporate news media to seek out information about important political, economic, and social issues and publish it starting this Friday from our blog - Imani News;

(3) engaging fellow citizens, including those who disagree with us, in serious discussion and debate about those issues and create, in Cincinnati, a unified plan of action based on it being the center that drives the region;

(4) committing as much time, energy, and money as possible to continue building our grassroots political organizations that has and can pressure politicians, government officials and the interests behind them to put the interests of American people over worldwide profit and power, and;

(5) connecting these efforts to global political and social movements that support the American constitutional ideals and will support the expansion of American democracy and human rights while opposing those fighting to destroy the United States of America.

We will continue to resist control of the world that has led to wars that have killed millions of people and have potential to kill billions of people, resist needless military spending yet support defense of the American people that is embedded in new policy that puts people first, resist any roll-back of civil and human rights domestically and work to enforce human rights worldwide, along with supporting resistance to illegitimate authority in all its forms. We will commit to collective efforts in Greater Cincinnati and Southern Ohio to help build an alternative infrastructure in support of the American homeland while preparing for Global Climate Change.

Here I quote and agree with our 44th President,

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.

Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.

Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.

Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.

We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort - even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Furthermore, we at Cincinnati Change believe that their must be a additional trillion dollar investment in the United States this year and at least 600 billion dollars must be invested in 6 million American families in trouble. We believe that through this our society can be maintained and improved.We have 20 demonstration cities picked out and Cincinnati is the headquarters where we and or our partners own the land.

We will host a review of a proposal this Friday for investing $130 million dollars over the next two months this Friday at the William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Mt. Auburn in Cincinnati starting at 9 AM where we will hold a week of review of a proposal for his investment over the next two months. there is over a half million dollars [$500,000] in the bank to do this planning and implementation, held by a contracted agency of the city of Cincinnati who has the federal contract that controls the $130M in non volume cap bonds.

Also we will review WHAT WORKED? WHAT DIDN'T? WHY NOT?

Among the issues to be reviewed -

· War On Poverty: Community Action Agencies, Metropolitan Cities Demonstration Act (Model Cities)

· Black Capitalism, Philadelphia Plan, Selected Contractors

· Executive Order 8802 Fair Employment Practices and follow-on actions

· Public Law 95-507 and modifications

· Ohio House Bill 584 Set Aside and its descendants such as EDGE

· The Small Business Investment Act and Minority programs such as Small Business investment Comaopny [SBIC's] and Specialized SBIC's [MSBIC'S]

· CETA, New Careers, Jobs Corps, Military Service, Peace Corp, Vista

· National and Regional Purchasing Councils including the National Minority Purchasing Council

· Positive capacity building pass-throughs, joint venture, and mentor protégés

· Non capacity building pass-through, fronts, and joint ventures

· Community Reinvestment Act and a 100 year review of banking, finance, insurance, securities and exchange laws

· Public Law 110- 343 known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] and other programs of the last years of the Bush Administration

I have new President

President Obama

Nuff Said

My Pledge of Allegiance to my Country

I [Hershel Daniels, Junior] pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands one Nation under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

20 January 2009

a day of Change in America

I Pledge Allegiance I Promise to be faithful and true (I have promised my loyalty starting in 1973 when I entered service to the United States of America) to the flag to the emblem that stands for and represents of the United States all 50 states, each of them individual, and individually represented on the flag of America yet formed into a UNION of one Nation. and to the Republic And I also pledge my loyalty to the Government that is itself a Republic, a form of government where the PEOPLE are sovereign, for which it stands, this government also being represented by the Flag to which I promise loyalty. one Nation under God, These 50 individual states are united as a single Republic under the Divine providence of God, "our most powerful resource" (according to the words of President Eisenhower) Indivisible, and can not be separated. (This part of the original version of the pledge was written just 50 years after the beginning of the Civil War and demonstrates the unity sought in the years after that divisive period in our history) with Liberty The people of this Nation being afforded the freedom to pursue "life, liberty, and happiness", and Justice And each person entitled to be treated justly, fairly, and according to proper law and principle, for All. And these principles afforded to EVERY OTHER AMERICAN CITIZEN, regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation or any other criteria. Just as the flag represents 50 individual states that can not be divided or separated, this Nation represents the millions of people who can not be separated or divided.

On September 8, 1892 a Boston-based youth magazine "The Youth's Companion" published a 22-word recitation for school children to use during planned activities the following month to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. Under the title "The Pledge to the Flag", the composition was the earliest version of what we now know as the [American] PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

June 14, 1954

The Digital Road to Recovery: A Stimulus Plan to Create Jobs, Boost Productivity and Revitalize America

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation [ITIF] estimates that spurring an additional investment of $30 billion in America’s IT network infrastructure in 2009 will create approximately 949,000 U.S. jobs. [Our projection for Ohio is over 150,000 jobs if we move now and include "clean coal" and Nuclear in our new Midwest Grid].

This report provides a detailed analysis and estimate of the short-term jobs impacts of using the stimulus package to spur investment in three critical digital networks: broadband, the smart grid and health IT. [Cincinnati Change has a multi billion dollar plan for Ohio]

By Robert Atkinson, Daniel Castro and Stephen Ezell
January 07, 2009

As Congress considers a substantial stimulus package to get the economy moving, investing in new economy digital infrastructures will provide significant opportunities not just for short-term stimulus and job creation, but also longer term economic and social benefits. In the report, “The Digital Road to Recovery: A Stimulus Plan to Create Jobs, Boost Productivity and Revitalize America,” ITIF provides a detailed analysis and estimate of the short-term jobs impacts of spurring investment in three critical digital networks: broadband networks, the smart grid (making the electric distribution system intelligent) and health IT, and outlines policy steps to spur this investment.

ITIF finds that investments in America’s digital infrastructure will spur significant job creation in the short run. Specifically, ITIF estimates that spurring an additional investment of $30 billion in America’s IT network infrastructure in 2009 will create approximately 949,000 U.S. jobs.

Read the report

View detailed job estimate calculations

Related Links

Report release event
January 7, 2009
Presentation slides, audio and video from the recent event at the National Press Club to release the report.

Select Media Coverage

A Stimulus Package We Can Believe In
January 7, 2009
Huffington Post

Obama’s Broadband Plan
January 6, 2009
BusinessWeek

A Broadband Stimulus Plan
January 7, 2009
BusinessWeek

The Tech Solution to the Recession
January 6, 2009
Forbes.com

IT Investment Will Create Jobs
January 5, 2009
Wall Street Journal

Innovation Should Mean More Jobs, Not Less
January 3, 2009
New York Times

Who is ITIF

ITIF is a non-partisan research and educational institute – a think tank – whose mission is to formulate and promote public policies to advance technological innovation and productivity internationally, in Washington, and in the states. Recognizing the vital role of technology in ensuring American prosperity, ITIF focuses on innovation, productivity, and digital economy issues.

Technological innovation, particularly in information technology, is at the heart of America’s growing economic prosperity. Crafting effective policies that boost innovation and encourage the widespread “digitization” of the economy is critical to ensuring robust economic growth and an improved standard of living. However, as in any new and changing situation, policymakers have varied awareness of what is needed and what will work. In some cases, legislators have responded to new and complex technology policy issues with solutions more suited for the old economy. And as the innovation economy has become increasingly important, opposition to it from special interests has grown. Finally, the excitement that the press, pundits and decision makers showed toward the information technology (IT) revolution in the 1990s has all too often been replaced with an attitude of “IT doesn’t matter.” It’s time to set the record straight that IT is still the key driver of productivity and innovation.

As a result, the mission of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is to help policy makers at the federal and state levels to better understand the nature of the new innovation economy and the types of public policies needed to drive innovation, productivity and broad-based prosperity for all Americans.

ITIF publishes policy reports, holds forums and policy debates, advises elected officials and their staff, and is an active resource for the media. It develops new and creative policy proposals to advance innovation, analyzes existing policy issues through the lens of advancing innovation and productivity, and opposes policies that hinder digital transformation and innovation.

To view the press release announcing the launch of ITIF, click here.

Located in Washington, DC, The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2006.

Tim Ferris: January 18-21: blogging from the bus

Tim Ferris: January 18-21: blogging from the bus

DURING THE BUS TRIP WE WILL DO A 50 Year Review & Analysis:

Office of Equal Opportunity [OEO], Affirmative Action, Setasides, Affirmative Access, Diversity, Inclusion, New Markets Tax Credits, Business Programs, Models, Structures, Approaches, and delivery systems for Opportunity[s] and Capacity Building. In review will be past political agreements and governing compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment under an Obama Presidency, in addition, we will also seek to identify and address the historic moral gaps.

WHAT WORKED? WHY NOT?

Among the issues to be reviewed -

• War On Poverty: Community Action Agencies, Metropolitan Cities Demonstration Act (Model Cities)
• Black Capitalism, Philadelphia Plan, Selected Contractors
• Executive Order 8802 Fair Employment Practices and follow-on actions
• Public Law 95-507 and modifications
• Ohio House Bill 584 Set Aside and its descendants such as EDGE
• The Small Business Investment Act and Minority programs such as Small Business investment Comaopny [SBIC's] and Specialized SBIC’s [MSBIC’S]
• CETA, New Careers, Jobs Corps, Military Service, Peace Corp, Vista
• National and Regional Purchasing Councils including the National Minority Purchasing Council
• Positive capacity building pass-throughs, joint venture, and mentor protégés
• Non capacity building pass-through, fronts, and joint ventures
• Community Reinvestment Act and a 100 year review of banking, finance, insurance, securities and exchange laws
  
• Public Law 110- 343 known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] and other programs of the last years of the Bush Administration

Principle Advisor to the National Ad Hoc Fairness Campaign Steering Committee and Panel Moderator is Lawrence Auls Executive Director LISW, LTD, Chairman of MDi, a Next Generation Broadband Wireless Community Development Co.

34th Annual Civil Rights March and Day of Service 19 Jan 2009

as member organization supports the

34^th Annual Civil Rights March

Sponsored by the

Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition of Cincinnati

Monday, January 19, 2009

Emancipation, the Dream, Unfinished Business: It’s Left to Us

Commemorative March and Celebration Schedule

• 10:30 a.m., National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, March Kick-Off

• 11:00 a.m., Fountain Square, Interfaith Prayer Service

• 12:00 p.m., Music Hall, MLK Commemorative Celebration featuring the Voices of Freedom Choir

• 3:oo p.m. Get on the Bus for Change at Washington Park
  

For our day of service we will Host a National Retrospective Symposium and

Best Practices Identification as part of our road to economic recovery.

It is part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Fairness Campaign

Ohio will be a demonstration for review and development of best practices

Convener of the National Ad Hoc Fairness Campaign Steering Committee Dr. Robert Day, President of the Center for Urban & Rural Development

National Ad Hoc Fairness Campaign Steering Committee

• General Chairman Joesph Debro Co-Founder, National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC)
• Co-Chairwoman Pandora Ramsey, Founding President ,Ohio Fairness Campaign
• Co-Chairman Fredrick Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA. former Chairman of Cincinnati Change
• Co-Chairman Irvin Henderson, Founding Chairman, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC).
• Dr. Robert Day PhD, President, Center for Urban & Rural Development
• Executive Coordinator, Michael Cole, President, Thouh Communications

Friday January 23, Cincinnati, Ohio 8:00 AM - 4:00PM

Where: PRESIDENT WILLIAM H TAFT HISTORIC SITE, 2038 Auburn Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45219

50 YEAR REVIEW & ANALYSIS:

Office of Equal Opportunity [OEO], Affirmative Action, Setasides, Affirmative Access, Diversity, Inclusion, New Markets Tax Credits, Business Programs, Models, Structures, Approaches, and delivery systems for Opportunity[s] and Capacity Building. The Fairness Campaign will review past political agreements and governing compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment under an Obama Presidency. The Fairness Campaign will also identify and address historic moral gaps.

WHAT WORKED? WHY NOT?

Among the issues to be reviewed -

• War On Poverty: Community Action Agencies, Metropolitan Cities Demonstration Act (Model Cities)
• Black Capitalism, Philadelphia Plan, Selected Contractors Strategy
• Executive Order 8802 Fair Employment Practices and follow-on actions
• Public Law 95-507 and modifications
• Ohio House Bill 584 Set Aside and its descendants such as EDGE
• The Small Business Investment Act and Minority programs such as Specialized SBIC’s [MSBIC’S]
• CETA, New Careers, Jobs Corps, Military Service, Peace Corp, Vista
• National and Regional Purchasing Councils
• Positive capacity building pass-throughs, joint ventures, and mentor protégés
• Non capacity building pass-throughs, fronts, and joint ventures

FCC Chairman is in Cincinnati on Jan. 7th 06

Do you have questions about the transition to digital TV on Feb. 17, or the coupons for digital TV converter boxes? You can get answers at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday straight from the source:

Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Martin will conduct a one-hour public information meeting at the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency, 1740 Langdon Farm Road, in Jordan’s Crossing Shopping Center, Bond Hill.

Martin will conduct similar meetings this afternoon in Dayton and Columbus. The FCC has targeted the three cities because of their high percentages of homes not prepared to receive digital TV signals.

A December Nielsen report said Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky was No. 25 among all TV markets, with 6.6 percent homes not ready for digital TV. Dayton was No. 20 (7.4 percent), and Columbus was No. 39 (5.2 percent).

19 Days to Change

A New Year for Change